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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nana

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#7,045

up +808 places

2025 births

16

up +2 births

All-time births

2,530

1% of them in 2025

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2000
47 births
Best rank
#613
in 1881
First recorded
1881
#613 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1966
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
141 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 200047#3,008Peak
  2. 200441#3,604
  3. 200139#3,471
  4. 200639#3,904
  5. 198937#2,968

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #613 in 1881 · peak births 47 in 2000

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 26% boys■ 74% girls

866 boys · 2,530 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Nana has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.